Tire



G. F. FISHER.

TIRE.

APPLICAHON F|LD wuss, 15125.

1,349, 1 24, Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

3 nvewlioz wire 6 the GEORGE F. FISHER, OF PLAINFIEL'D, NEW COMPANY, A CORPORATI JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO REVERE RUBBER 0N 0F RHODE ISLAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

Application filed July 15, 1915. Serial No. 39,979;

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. FISHER, a. citizen of the United States, residing at llaintield, county of Union, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in 'lires, of winch the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to pneumatic vehicle tires having a carcass preferabl of woven thread fabric, and has for an o ject to provide therein greater resistance to distortion under load without loss of resiliency or increase of weight. Another object is to provide a stronger anchorage to the inextcnsible restraining elements located at the bead portions of a tire structure.

I accomplish these objects by a novel structure and method of accomplishing same. more fully set forth in the following specification, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein I Figure l is a cross-sectional view of a tire core showing the method of applying the fabric;

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a tire carcass built in accordance with this invention; and

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional viewct the head portion of a carcass, showing this invention applied to a tire of the quick-detachable type.

To construct a tire according to this an vcntion I apply symmetrically about the outer periphery C of a core (1 two overlapping strips of ordinary tru-tioncd tire tabric (I. and a, the width of the overlapping portions being slightly greater than the distance about the core from the position of a bead wire /l to that of the corrcspoiuling wire c on the opposite sh te, the total width of each strip la-ing approximately twice the above distance. I then told the fabric plies down over the core so that they hug the surface closely and put in position over them the head wires 1! and .4, the relative position of the wires and the fabric being shown in Fig. 1 by the lines A and B. .\t this stage the core is covered by two plies of fabric with a single ply depcndcnt from each side. I then fold up about the wire I! the short projecting part of the ply o, and about the projccting portions ol both the Qlies a and 0. The ply a is carried back over the core until it overlaps its opposite margin just above the wire (Z. The lon end of the ply b is then similarly folded back over the whole until it overlaps its opposite margin at the wire 6.

The above described method of applying the fa] dc to the core supplies an extremely firm Lghd for the wires, there bein a continuots ply of fabric about each. l"he entire structure is also strengthened in that the warp and weft strands being disposed on the bias." assume in the refolded por tion of each ply an opposite relation to that in the two layers nearest the core.

The same method can be applied to a tire of the quick-detachable type, by forming the plies somewhat wider to overlap the hard rubber heads used therein. The latter are placed in position after the ply a has been folded back over the core, the ply I) being then folded back into its final position to inclose them and bind them in place.

Circumferential strips f and 1/ (Fig. 3) may he super osed on the ply b to form an additional he 11 for the the rim flange.

The remaining elements of the tire are applied to the carcass according to the usual method. and the whole completed by vulcanization as in the case of the conventional tirc.

Having described my invention, what I claim and dcsirc to protect by Letters Patcnt is:

l. The construction in tires which consists in providing two overlapping sheets of fabric; whi h overlapped portion conforms to the shapr d' the tire. the unlapped portions of sat l sheets being alterliately doubled back over said tire to the opposite sides. a a v 2. The construction in a tire carcass which consists in providing two sheets of fabric having their margins overlapping an amount slightly greater than the circuml'crcntial outcr distance between the heads of the tire. said overlapping portions covering the tire sylmnetricallj on each side lhercol'. the outer portion of the outer overlapping shcct extending around the head wire and back over the tire to the opposite edge thereof. and the outer portion oi the inner sheet extending around its correspolldhard rubber bead' and to protect it from any chafing action of ing wire and over the tire to the opposite head.

3. A tire carcass comprising superposed plies of circumferentially continuous pieces of fabric looped around oppositely disposed beads and continuations formed of less than the whole number of said plies passing respectively from each head to the opposite sides of the tire.

4. A tire carcass comprising two overlapped sheets of fabric the overlapped portion having a greater length than the circumferential outer distance between the beads of the carcass, the edges of the sheets adjacent the overlapped portion being wrapped around their respective bead wires and the portions of the sheets beyond the overlapped portion extending respectively back over the carcass bringin" their respective edges to the opposite si es of the carcass ad acent the opposite bead and thereby binding the edge of the corresponding overlapped portion about the bead.

5. A tire for vehicle wheels comprising plies of fabric formed of a single Width of fabric looped about oppositely disposed beads and joined together along its longitudinal margins immediately above one of the beads to form a lapped joint whereby each ply will be continuous throughout transversely from bead to bead.

(3. A tire for vehicle wheels comprising plies of fabric formed of single Widths of fabric looped about oppositely disposed beads and joined together along their re spective longitudinal margins to form lapped joints disposed respectively on opposite sides of the tire.

7. A tire for vehicle wheels comprising plies of fabric formed of single widths of fabric looped about oppositely disposed beads and joined together along their re spective longitiulinal margins to form lapped joints disposed respectively on opposite sides of the tire immediately above the beads.

Signed at New York, N. Y., this 13th day of July, 1915.

GEORGE F. FISHE it. 

